The company established a monopoly by acquiring its competitors.

这家公司通过收购竞争对手形成了垄断。

From my perspective, learning to get along with others is more important than acquiring knowledge.

在我看来，学会如何与他人相处比获取知识更为重要。

Is learning a foreign language a question of learning new skills or a question of acquiring new knowledge?

学习外国语是学习一种新技能，还是获取新知识呢？

Children seek out regularities and rules in acquiring language.

儿童在学习语言过程中会找出各种规律和规则。

In acquiring books, often in mock-heroic ways, he says he has managed "to renew the Old World."

获取书籍的方式通常颇有些模仿英雄慷慨赴死的悲壮，而当得到书时，他说感怀他已经完成了“旧世界的复原”。

Stop acquiring new debt.

不要产生新的债务。